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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 6:2

Verse Job 6:2. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed] Job wished to be dealt with according to justice; as he was willing that his sins, if they could be proved, should be weighed against his sufferings; and if this could not be done, he wished that his sufferings and his complainings might be weighed together; and it would then be seen that, bitter as his complaint had been, it was little when compared with the distress which occasioned it.

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See also Job 6:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED - The word rendered “grief” here (כעשׂ _ka‛aś_) may mean either vexation, trouble, grief; Ecclesiastes 1:18; Ecclesiastes 2:23; or it may mean anger;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz (Job 5:2), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity (Job 6:1 f.). The dr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OH. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. MY GRIEF: i.e. the cause of my grief....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _my grief_ Rather, MY IMPATIENCE (ch. Job 4:2). The word expresses the whole demeanour which in ch. 3, and to the eyes of his friends, he shews under his trouble. He desires that it were weighed and a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 6:1-13. Job defends the violence of his complaints and his despair Eliphaz had made no reference directly to sin on Job's part; but he drew dark pictures of the evilness of human nature before th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THROUGHLY WEIGHED— Heath, after Schultens, renders this verse, _Would to God my impatience were thoroughly weighed, and that they would in like manner poise my calamities in the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. SEARCH FOR COMFORT AND JOB'S CONFRONTATION WITH GOD (Job 6:1, Job 7:21) 1. There is adequate reason for his complaint. (Job 6:1-7) TEXT 6:1-7 6 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Oh that my vexation...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THROUGHLY WEIGHED, AND MY CALAMITY LAID IN THE BALANCES TOGETHER!_ Throughly weighed. Oh that, instead of censuring my complaints, when thou oughtest rather to have sympathized...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:2 all (e-9) Lit. 'together.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF JOB (JOB 6:7) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of Go...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    A heavy weight is a great strain for the person who must carry it. And Job’s troubles were a terrible strain for Job. Job spoke because of this strain. And Job was not sure that his words were correct...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    ל֗וּ שָׁקֹ֣ול יִשָּׁקֵ֣ל כַּעְשִׂ֑י _וְ֝_†_הַוָּתִ֗י_† בְּֽ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “A DECEITFUL BROOK” Job 6:1 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the (a) balances together! (a To know whether I complain without just cause....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    My sins, &c. In the Hebrew my wrath. He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his real sins; but with the imaginary crimes which his friends falsely imputed to him: and especially with his wrat...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (3) For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my wor...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job. 1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the visitation of an angel. 2. But, we al...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    OH THAT MY GRIEF WERE THOROUGHLY WEIGHED,.... Or, "in weighing weighed" u, most nicely and exactly weighed; that is, his grievous affliction, which caused so much grief of heart, and which had been sh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Ver. 2. _Oh that my grief were throughly weighed_] Heb. Were weighed by weighing. The word rendered grief signi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O that my grief_ The cause of my grief; _were thoroughly weighed_ Were fully understood and duly considered! O that I had an impartial judge! that would understand my case, and see whether I have not...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Oh, that my grief were throughly weighed, namely, the suffering which he was enduring, AND MY CALAMITY, the bitter and unexplainable affliction, LAID IN THE BALANCES TOGETHER! Both pans being thus adj...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LAID: _ Heb._ lifted up...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY GRIEF; either, 1. My calamity, as it follows, or the cause or matter of my grief; the act being put for the object, as is usual, _fear for the thing feared_, &c., and the same thing being here rep...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:2 Oh H3863 grief H3708 fully H8254 (H8800) weighed H8254 (H8735) calamity H1942 (H8675)...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 6:4. _The poison_ of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed._ HEAPING UP ONE SCALE We have no objection to weigh all Job’s griefs. But what shall we put in the other scale? He who counts the hairs of our head, and pu...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But Job answered and said._ JOB’S ANSWER TO ELIPHAZ We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and impatience (Job 6:1); (2)

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2) Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 23:2; Job 4:5...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My grief — The cause of my grief. Weighed — Were fully understood, and duly considered. O that I had an equal judge! that would understand my case, and consider whether I have not cause for complaints...

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